My site drop out of yahoo.Adsense income drop seriously

[waiman39hk]

My site traffic relies heavily on yahoo as it ranks high in a number of target keyphase.

Some days ago my site was dropped out of the index. Some less important pages are still in top 20 but my homepage which is receiving most of the traffic was gone completely.

So depressed my adsense income dropped >50%. The real impact has to be checked after the weekend.

About half month ago I was glad to celebrate I passed the $20 dollar mark but now I was worring if I have to start from zero again.

[Hobbs]

waiman,
Take my words and engrave them on your monitor using a sharp object:

Do Not Depend On One Source For ANYTHING

Not traffic, not earnings (more difficult), not owning just one web site, don't put all your money in one bank, and have more than one child if you can too!

Feb 2006 I went through GoDaddy and lost half my traffic for a few weeks, but you know what? I know now that if Google drops off the end of the earth I still have a business going.

[chikung]

What did you do to recover your lost traffic?

[swa66]

I find it strange that you rely most on Yahoo! for traffic. While I do rank with a site in there in the #1 spot, I get much more traffic from Google for the same keyword.

I can wish all I want it were more balanced, but I can handly influence the popularity of search engines with potential visitors.

I get about
- 55% of my visitors from Google
- 10% of my visitors from Yahoo!
- 2% of my visitors from MSN
(don't have the #1 spot with them)
- 1% of my visitors from ask

All I can do is work on the #1 spot and try to figure out why MSN doesn't like me (and why their geotargeting is broken).

[andrewshim]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Many webbies who are starting out don't get ranked in G! for mebbe up to 2 years (sandbox and age factor). During that time, it's much easier to get traffic from Yahoo & MSN!

I didn't realize how badly I needed the traffic from Y! until all this crap started in April. My adsense earnings dropped too. Surprisingly, the traffic from Y! was really targetted and really missed!

And yeah Hobbs... you's is correct!
Fortunately, I came into this knowing not to put all my eggs in once basket, but dang.... that traffic from Y! is important while I wait to get into G!'s serps... so you guys, please remember... for most of us, it's not that we want to rely on one source...

[Hobbs]

What did you do to recover your lost traffic

I just toughed out BigDaddy, but my advice is to build a site that people bookmark and come to directly (half my traffic), and get as many inbound links as you can too.

I realize that diversifying is not always in our control or choice, but it is something you need to keep at the back of your mind.

[chikung]

Thanks a lot Hobbs,

I will remember and impliment this.

[andrewshim]

Yep... when you think about it, you can't do anything if G! Y! or MSN decide to change their algos overnight... We're simply at their mercy and we just have to tough it out.

After bouncing around all April and May, I told myself not to cry over spilt milk (spilt serps?), to get real and just keep working on my sites. The trick is to keep learning from every bump in this SEO roller coaster!

[twebdonny]

If you Compete with Yahoo in any way you will eventually be pushed out. They will use all the key phrases and webmaster guidelines as their excuse because admitting the real issue of competition would hurt the equity price.

IMHO

[edited by: engine at 11:01 am (utc) on June 2, 2006]
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[Hobbs]

I was this close blocking the Yahoo bot from my site, it consumes several Gegs of my bandwidth monthly and in return they send me less than 5% of my total traffic, the nerve of this bot! It does my site at double Googlebot's frequency, very hungry but does not pay its own tab! I am only allowing it for the sake of diversifying and perhaps - maybe - in the future they start sending decent traffic, I am positioned well even in the Yahoo serps same as Google's, but obviously it's a dry land down there..